Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM Andrey Repin via dia-list wrote: > Greetings, Alejandro Imass! > > > No reason at all. Just thought that since the effort is relatively big to > > modernize DIA to GTK 3 it would be worthwhile to at least discuss it. > > Moreover, I think a future Web-based interfac

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Alejandro Imass! > No reason at all. Just thought that since the effort is relatively big to > modernize DIA to GTK 3 it would be worthwhile to at least discuss it. > Moreover, I think a future Web-based interface to DIA (even if not the > primary/native one) will be important for the l

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Zander Brown
On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 14:31 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:04 PM Zander Brown wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 12:59 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > What I was thinking is that we could channel some funds to a > > > University and have them work on it. My native count

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:04 PM Zander Brown wrote: > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 12:59 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > What I was thinking is that we could channel some funds to a University > and have them work on it. My native country (Venezuela) is in pretty bad > shape but top-notch Universit

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Zander Brown
On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 12:59 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:25 PM Zander Brown > wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:34 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > [...] > > > > You seem to know exactly what needs to be done to get through the > > > GTK 2 bump, and it awesome th

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:25 PM Zander Brown wrote: > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:34 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > [...] > You seem to know exactly what needs to be done to get through the GTK 2 > bump, and it awesome that at least someone does and understands the urgency > to AT LEAST bum

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Zander Brown
On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:34 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 3:50 AM Zander Brown wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 22:20 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > The Gtk3 -> 4 transition should be much smoother, just a bit > > monotonous > > > > > I have heard of people sugges

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Eduard Nicodei via dia-list
I don't think we need to argue. Alejandro's comment however raises an important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? I think actually Dia can live alongside online diagram editors such as draw.io and formats such as XML/SVG have nothing to do with it. The reason why I have used dia in the past i

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 17:38 +, Eduard Nicodei wrote: > Tomas Harding also suggested getting in touch with the authors > directly, the only email I could find was Steffen Macke's (CC'ed) or > even with the Gnome Bugmaster (also CC'ed). The technical administrators of bugzilla.gnome.org don

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 8:40 AM Andrey Repin via dia-list wrote: > Greetings, Alejandro Imass! > > > [...] > In the contrast, I can use Dia on my netbook with just 2 GB RAM > comfortable. > And not just starting and closing. The diagram I'm working with contains > 1336 > objects. > All it takes

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 3:50 AM Zander Brown wrote: > On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 22:20 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > > The Gtk3 -> 4 transition should be much smoother, just a bit monotonous > > I have heard of people suggesting to use JSX for GTK 4, so not sure why > the "shit" comment about R

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Alejandro Imass! > Just for reference: > https://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2016/08/17/a-quick-look-at-using-jsx-in-gnome/ > So why not think in this direction or node-gtk or something along these > lines and get some fresh blood in here. > Not so "shit" now, eh? I was forced to sw

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Zander Brown
On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 00:24 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:14 AM Alejandro Imass > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:58 PM timothy b via dia-list < > > dia-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The question isn’t so much as to what uti

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Zander Brown
ions are answered, any other discussion is > academic. > > > > > > > > > > From: dia-list on behalf of Alejandro > Imass > > Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 2:52 pm > > To: discussions about usage and development of dia > > Subject: Re: Mai

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-05 Thread Zander Brown
On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 22:20 -0500, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM Thomas HARDING < > t...@thomas-harding.name> wrote: > > Hi, all ! > > > > > > > > So, > > > > > > > > Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : > > > So, I think that's a good start

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 12:14 AM Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:58 PM timothy b via dia-list > wrote: > >> The question isn’t so much as to what utilities that Día uses, nor what >> platform is managing the code. >> >> The discussion should be about is there anyone that wa

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 11:58 PM timothy b via dia-list wrote: > The question isn’t so much as to what utilities that Día uses, nor what > platform is managing the code. > > The discussion should be about is there anyone that wants to maintain Dia > for Windows, and who is prepared to maintain Día

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread timothy b via dia-list
discussion is academic. From: dia-list on behalf of Alejandro Imass Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 2:52 pm To: discussions about usage and development of dia Subject: Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:20 PM Alejandro Imass mailto:aim

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 10:20 PM Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM Thomas HARDING > wrote: > >> Hi, all ! >> >> So, >> >> Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : >> > > >> So, I think that's a good start point : why Dia, an unmaintained >> software,

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 6:12 PM Thomas HARDING wrote: > Hi, all ! > > So, > > Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : > > So, I think that's a good start point : why Dia, an unmaintained > software, has *no* competitor /on its segment/ ? > > DIA is very unique I give you tha

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Thomas HARDING
Hi, all ! So, Le 04/12/2018 à 11:21, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list a écrit : I don't think we need to argue.  Alejandro's comment however raises an important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? I think there will always be a need for an offline, open source, portable lightweight diagram SW, s

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Eduard Nicodei via dia-list! > The reason why I have used Dia in the past is that I could not find any > other solution for the following requirements: > - be fully offline (draw.io & co fail this - plus I'm not trusting them with > any work-sensitive material!) > - is free, open sou

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Rob Wortham via dia-list
Just to support the point made below about Dia as a component of a wider workflow. The ability to extract the definition data from a diagram easily was the major reason I chose to use Dia. The python interface is simple and exposes all the content in a clear object oriented way. I looked at Visi

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 5:22 AM Eduard Nicodei via dia-list < dia-list@gnome.org> wrote: > I don't think we need to argue. Alejandro's comment however raises an > important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? > > I think actually Dia can live alongside online diagram editors such as > draw.io and

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-04 Thread Eduard Nicodei via dia-list
I don't think we need to argue. Alejandro's comment however raises an important issue: "what are Dia's competitors"? I think actually Dia can live alongside online diagram editors such as draw.io and formats such as XML/SVG have nothing to do with it. The reason why I have used Dia in the past

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-03 Thread Andrey Repin via dia-list
Greetings, Alejandro Imass! > IMHO maybe a fork is required to take DIA to the next level and separate it > from GNOME even if you decide to keep using GTK and move to 3 or whatever. > More than the actual graphics library I would look into taking the things > that are really valuable from the cur

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-03 Thread Alejandro Imass
Just my $0.02 Background: I have been using DIA extensively since the 90s. I use DIA and dia2code for UML and even do all my database modelling in DIA with class diagrams and then create the DB models based on that. I have even contributed to dia2code on enhancements that we've needed over the year

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 02.12.18 um 18:38 schrieb Eduard Nicodei: > In the original "Doing some work on Dia" email, Tomas mentioned: > > Anyway, if anybody wants to help: > > * triaging bugs > * providing patches or testing patch > * going through dia forks [3] and extracting useful things > > > I

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 03.12.18 um 01:40 schrieb Andre Klapper: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2018-12-02 at 17:38 +, Eduard Nicodei wrote: >> Tomas Harding also suggested getting in touch with the authors >> directly, the only email I could find was Steffen Macke's (CC'ed) or >> even with the Gnome Bugmaster (also CC'ed). >

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 03.12.18 um 03:21 schrieb Michael Ross via dia-list: > I believe that Steffen (managed producing a windows installer) and Hans > Breuer (who was the main decision maker about the direction of > development) have passed on to their next incarnation. I think Tomas was > suggesting to contact Gnome

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-03 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 03.12.18 um 05:31 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:21:50 -0500 > Michael Ross via dia-list wrote: > >> I believe that Steffen (managed producing a windows installer) and >> Hans Breuer (who was the main decision maker about the direction of >> development) have passed on to their ne

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:21:50 -0500 Michael Ross via dia-list wrote: > I believe that Steffen (managed producing a windows installer) and > Hans Breuer (who was the main decision maker about the direction of > development) have passed on to their next incarnation. I think Tomas > was suggesting to

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-02 Thread timothy b via dia-list
Cc: Michael Ross Subject: Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia I believe that Steffen (managed producing a windows installer) and Hans Breuer (who was the main decision maker about the direction of development) have passed on to their next incarnation. I think Tomas was suggesting to contact

Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-02 Thread Michael Ross via dia-list
I believe that Steffen (managed producing a windows installer) and Hans Breuer (who was the main decision maker about the direction of development) have passed on to their next incarnation. I think Tomas was suggesting to contact Gnome personnel. Ownership of the project is locked up and we need t

Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

2018-12-02 Thread Eduard Nicodei via dia-list
Hi All, I know this has been asked before but I would like to voice my support as well. I saw Tomas Pospisek's (CC'ed) message on the Dia mailing list some time ago about maintaining Dia and getting fixes merged into upstream ("Doing some work on Dia"). I was wondering if Tomas or anybody else h